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Alden Grabit Broken Bolt and Damaged Screw Exractors, 4-Piece Set
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Alden Grabit Broken Bolt and Damaged Screw Exractors, 4-Piece Set Reviews
Very cheap metal, high strength steel would have been better, first time I used it the extractor side broke because it is made of cheap metal.
Anyways, the set of Grabits are [.]., and every tool kit should have a set. And it was a horrible experience. And they worked wonderfully. So I bought the Grabit screw extractors.
So the whole mount has been loose all this time. You had to screw two 1/4×3" screws (those are pretty big) into a 2×4 stud in the wall using a hex key. Then using a proper method of a socket wrench had the whole thing remounted in about 2 minutes instead of the half hour I spent the first time cussing and yelling. A hex key is the hardest tool to work with, and stripped out the head of the screw about 1/4" away from being tight. Sure they're late night TV fodder, but figured I'd give it a shot, as the set was cheaper than individual screw extractors at Home Depot. So it finally came time that I wanted to fix it by doing it right and replace the crappy screws they sent with proper lag bolts you'd install with a socket wrench. That's after pre-drilling the hole.
So about year and a half ago I hung a 19 flatscreen on the wall in the den. You see, whoever the "engineer" was that designed it should be flogged and their engineer credentials shoved up their. The words coming out of my mouth at the time would have made a truck driver blush. I had those crappy screws removed in about 5 seconds. And you can't undo it because the hex key stripped out the head.
. I had almost as much luck with the left hand drill end. So after experimenting I found I had to put a lot pressure the drill & go as slow as possible; best done by using my old cordless drill with a half charged battery. With no immediate need I tested them by driving a few screws into some pine & cedar deck boards & purposely striping the heads. So I left the postman the 22 cents and got them the next day. After snapping a few deck screws last summer I thought they might be handy to have a set of ez-outs.
My fist annoyance was they were shipped by the "AsSeenOnTVGuys" with insufficient postage. In the end they do work but you may still have to work at it. Following the direction I drilled out the head with the left hand bit and the switched to the cone end to extract the screw applied some pressure, no luck.
Works on short screws. Thank God for Vise Grips and patience. I tried extracting SS 2.5" screws from pine and it plain old didn't work.
This product may very well work with 2-inch screws, but will likely require some practice. If you have any screws over two inches, this is not the way to go.
Following the instructions for re-burnishing and trying again did not work. It removed my 3-inch screw about one-quarter inch before stripping.
This product is a prime candidate for the Consumer Reports "Selling It" feature. The packaging states "Extracts screws up to 4-In." The instructions in the packaging state "Tool can be compromised if extracting large screws (bolts) exceeding 2 inches in length and/or have aggressive threads." Deduct two stars for misleading packaging.
Going even slightly too fast will strip out the screw head again.
Deduct two more stars.
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